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HARC’s New Home: A Vision of Sustainability Realized

As a result of beginning with the end in mind, HARC's headquarters is on track to achieving a Platinum Level Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification - making it the first LEED Platinum green building in The Woodlands, Texas. Platinum is the most environmentally stringent LEED certification issued by the U.S Green Building Council. Check out the interactive web application "Building a Legacy” to learn more about HARC’s origins, how the building was designed with nature, behind the scenes design features, and the innovative sustainable technologies that enable our building to achieve an over 50% energy savings compared to LEED base targets.

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HARC's Platinum certification is the highest environmental building achievement attainable by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), making HARC the first LEED Platinum building in The Woodlands and Montgomery County.

A green oasis of quiet in an urban environment, the HARC campus exemplifies the power of sustainable site design and restorative landscaping. Surrounded by a forested curtain of trees and native vegetation, the HARC building is sequestered against the noise and sight of traffic on Gosling Road, a busy thoroughfare just a stone’s throw away.

It’s all about how you start the process… beginning with the end in mind and finishing in alignment with those early goals. The journey to delivery of HARC’s new, green building is a great story about collaboration, setting clear goals with an organization’s leadership, and working with the design, engineering and construction teams early in the process to understand the effort required.

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HARC has partnered with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the US Business Council for Sustainable Development to implement a private led initiative to drive investment in energy efficiency in the Houston market.

HARC has worked with the City of Houston on a wide range of solar energy projects. Through its partnership with the City of Houston, HARC helped the City demonstrate leadership in clean energy and environmental performance.

In partnership with the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), HARC is launching the Department of Energy’s State Energy Program Texas Industrial Energy Efficiency and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) grant.

HARC’s LEED Platinum headquarters was recently featured in Modern Steel Construction, the official publication of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The article highlighted the Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (WBLCA) undertaken by the project’s civil engineering partner, Walter P Moore, and the resulting utilization of a steel-framed structure, one that led to a 20% reduction in embodied CO2 associated with the building’s structural and enclosure systems.